I let this one slip by me.

hotrodrock · Post by **hotrodrock** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:01 pm

I keep seeing posts about how hard these are to find. As I have said so many times, just be patient and shop ebay. The bargains are there to be had. Hatch cover missing, but no bid deal. I had intended to bid and forgot about it. Even had it on my watch list. I've picked up several of these off ebay at similar prices.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0351598775

Dauntless · Post by **Dauntless** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:27 pm

Damn, that went cheap too.

Funny it looks exactly like the 21st Century Toys RC one I bought at Walmart a couple of years ago.

Right down to the same camo scheme, and if I remember correctly the insignia on the turret is the same. Why is it called something else?

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:01 pm

Dauntless wrote:Damn, that went cheap too.

Funny it looks exactly like the 21st Century Toys RC one I bought at Walmart a couple of years ago.

Right down to the same camo scheme, and if I remember correctly the insignia on the turret is the same. Why is it called something else?

21st + New Millenium = same same

Post by **aferguson** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:29 am

shipping seems pretty high for US....so not such a bargain as it appears.

hotrodrock · Post by **hotrodrock** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:49 am

Under $50 (which includes shipping) is a bargain price for one of these. Last one I was watching on ebay sold for over $100. There is one dealer on ebay who keeps asking over $200. Don't know that I would call the Panzer IV rare, but they aren't exactly lots of them that come up for sale.

CENT-ONE · Post by **CENT-ONE** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:00 am

Yeah, I'd say it was a good deal even with the shipping cost. I had even set the alarm on my phone to remind me 10 minutes before it closed and then I left my phone in the garage and missed it. It's probably a good thing that it slip by all of us who were watching it otherwise it would have gone up to the usual price, at least this way someone got a deal.

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:22 am

hotrodrock wrote:Under $50 (which includes shipping) is a bargain price for one of these. Last one I was watching on ebay sold for over $100. There is one dealer on ebay who keeps asking over $200. Don't know that I would call the Panzer IV rare, but they aren't exactly lots of them that come up for sale.

Exactly right. If the total price including shipping, and even if the shipping is "high, outrageous, whatever", is a deal then what's the problem. Everyone is hung up on shipping regardless of the total deal picture. Don't get it. I'm not gonna pass up an item that the price + shipping is a deal, but it's good that others do I guess, means better chance for me to get it.